From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 13:57:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E428937B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.attbi.com (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12DA443F3F for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:57:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.no-ip.com[24.147.188.198]) by attbi.com (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <200306192057550120098pbde>; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:57:55 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h5JKvt1V011980; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:57:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h5JKvsKx011977; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:57:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Fredrik_Carl=E9n?= References: <200306192012.h5JKCB808192@d1o1025.telia.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 19 Jun 2003 16:57:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200306192012.h5JKCB808192@d1o1025.telia.com> Message-ID: <44llvxhjjh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compilation of port 'latex' fails repeatedly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:57:57 -0000 "Fredrik Carl=E9n" writes: > I have tried to install latex on my new FreeBSD system, but it fails=20 > miserably. All I do is type "$ make install distclean" in the latex=20 > directory of the port tree (/usr/ports/print/latex). This usually does=20 > the trick, right?=20 Yes. > $ uname -a:=20 > FreeBSD al-khwarizmi.intra.arrhythmetic.net 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD=20 > 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 GMT 2003=20=20=20=20=20 > root@hollin.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386=20 Maybe the port is broken on 5.x? A few still are; after all, it's not a production branch yet... You might want to try the teTeX distribution (/usr/ports/print/tetex); it's a very nice package.